Egypt: Christian imprisoned for “blasphemy” for offering Bible to Muslim

“Rafaat said there is no such criminal charge as ‘evangelism’ under Egyptian law, and that handing out Bibles or even promoting Christianity does not constitute ‘defaming a revealed religion.'” But even though Sharia is not the law of the land in Egypt, its cultural influence remains, leading to incidents such as the persecution of Medhat Ishak. There are corrupt officials everywhere, and they usually present themselves as acting on the side of righteousness; post-Muslim Brotherhood Egypt is no exception.

ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – An Egyptian Christian who was arrested earlier this month for alleged evangelizing of Muslims in suburban Cairo could be held indefinitely in prison on a false accusation of blasphemy, his lawyer said.

Medhat Ishak, a 35-year-old Christian from Ebid village in Minya Governorate, was arrested on Aug. 7 while handing out Bibles to Muslims outside El-Arab Mall in Sixth of October City. Mall security guards took Ishak into custody and then turned him over to national police, who accused him of evangelism.

The day after his arrest, a judge amended the charge against Ishak to “defamation of a revealed religion” and ordered him held for 15 days. On Monday (Aug. 24) the judge extended Ishak’s detention for another 15 days, said Ishak’s attorney, Rafik Rafaat.

He added that he suspects the judge will keep extending the detention order, in violation of Egyptian law, until the case falls out of the public eye, and then hand Ishak a prison sentence of one to five years.

Rafaat said there is no such criminal charge as “evangelism” under Egyptian law, and that handing out Bibles or even promoting Christianity does not constitute “defaming a revealed religion.”

“Inside the mall he met a young man, and he didn’t know if he was a Christian or not, and he offered him a copy of the Bible and told him he should take it to know God more,” Rafaat said. “So that young man told him that he was a Muslim and doesn’t read the Bible, and Medhat apologized and left.”

The young Muslim man, however, told Ishak, “I am not going to let you go,” and informed mall security that a man was evangelizing in the shopping complex, Rafaat said.

“The mall security called the SSI [the former State Security Investigations Service, now known as Egyptian Homeland Security] and told them that a man was evangelizing,” he said. “Then they arrested him and questioned him and found a few Bibles with him.”

The security officials took an official statement from the Muslim stating that Ishak was distributing Bibles inside the mall and produced other witnesses who said they saw Ishak handing out Bibles.

“The word ‘blasphemy’ means that he was insulting the other religion, but he didn’t do that, and he didn’t talk about Islam or prophets or anything like that to be accused of blasphemy,” Rafaat said. “So, now we are surprised that the attorney general accused him of blasphemy when he didn’t commit any act of blasphemy.”…

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Everyone must lie to make this false arrest…the charge may be dropped and no apology will be offered.

The Bible known to Mohammed was called ‘The Book’. Koran 5.46 teaches that the Gospel and Toran came from God and that no one can change Allah’s words. Then they explain that the words known to Mohammed were changed, though we have the same Bible known to Mohammed.

The conclusion Muslims must draw from several Koran passages is that Allah’s words in the Bible cannot be changed and are still the same words of Allah that were present at the time of Mohammed. It is therefore, not a crime to hand to Muslims a book that Mohammed himself approved.

It is subsequent Muslims who discovered the incompatibility of OT and NT doctrines with the Koran that led them to tie themselves in philosophical knots. The Koran clearly identifies that The Book is as much the word of God as the Koran. They cannot refute the Koranic approval of the Bible without refuting Islam and concluding that Islam is self-referentially incoherent and therefore must be false.

I suspect most Muslims are completely unaware of this huge Quranic dilemma. And the ones who know about it probably give it no thought. To be a Muslim requires enormous amounts of self-deception and selective reading of the Quran. The more repeated message in the Quran and Hadith of hating everything and everyone not Muslim always seems to rule the day.

muhammad knew the scriptures….partly…he could not read or write and what he knew someone told him. No wonder he got things so mixed up but of course the devils angel helped.It sure wasn’t Gabriel who visited him.but no one has ever proved that he even existed.

Revealed? Yeah. Sure. Religious paranormal in the extreme.
Defamation, more stance for Islam.
If Islam did not have such outrageous rules, stance modes, fear bolstered ways, Islam would lose street cred, for who would have voluntarily joined, how many would have left by now, who wants to wear a burka, pray to muhammad before sex, (The Cult Of The Black Virgin), pray 5X a day, or … or perhaps they think he was doing social Jihad for Jesus, like they do for Islam, fighting social evils.
I heard that Islam is a creeping pestilence.
It gets everywhere, is open to challenge all infidels, who are, just now, more than Islam is.
There’s not much of a response to Islam’s onslaught, even though the world now knows the score.

“… God will not bless a people that follow a false prophet and worships Satan.”

Oh, but the Living God would change some, should they repent and cease to follow the Allah god of islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) and follow the Anointed One.. the mosque is porous; many hearts are disgusted with the acts and words of Muhammad (lately contrived; full of lusts) and yearn for truth..

Middle east MUslims are incapable of either forming or sustaining a society that offers equal standing to all Iits citizens. They lack both the intellect and self-control necessary in democratic societies. Perpetuating the unjust punishments set forth in the Quran is the prime example of how primitive middle eastern Muslims are and will continue to be. Self control is a little known or valued human ability for these primitive Muslims. Don’t believe it? Just make fun of the Prophet Muhammad and then face the death penalty. I believe there are peace loving Muslims, but we cannot take unnecessary chances that place ourselves in danger by trusting Muslims we don’t know quite well.

This shows that the imams and other Muslims in power must be very afraid of the Bible and the many truths it teaches about the real Nature of Jesus. For if those Bible truths get out to the Egyptian public the very foundation of Islam fail. For the foundation of Islam is one of denial about the actual Nature of Jesus. In that Islam denies that Jesus is the Son of God.That being the son of God the Father..Also, Islam denies that Jesus is God the Son.Likewise, Islam denies that Jesus is God .Before going over this it should be first stated that the way to tell truth from error is found in the Bible in Isaiah 8:20. Which reads “To the law of the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” [K.J.V.] In other words if a teachers or prophet has teachings and doctrines that are in contradiction the God’s Word, the Bible, than that teacher or prophet is in darkness ,error and is a false teacher or false prophet. Likewise ,if a religion had teachings and doctrine that are in contradiction to the Bible then that religion is in darkness ,error and is a false religion. So this this it should be stated three things about the denial about the real nature of Jesus in the light of the Bible. First Islam denies that Jesus is the Son of God. This denial of Islam is in great contradiction the the Bible which ,indeed ,teaches that Jesus is the Son of God . As seen, in for example,Matthew 3:16,17. 16:15,16. John 3:16,17,36. First John 2;22,23. 4:14,15. 15:12,13. Second ,Islam denies that Jesus is God the Son. This denial of Islam is in strong contradiction to the Bible which teaches that Jesus is God the Son. As shown in Hebrews 1:6-8. With emphasis on verse 8. Third, Islam’s denial that Jesus is God is very much in contrast to what the Bible really teaches.As seen in John 1:1-3. Romans 9:5. Colossians 1:15-17. Second Peter 1:1. Titus 2:13. First john 5:20. Moreover to further see that Jesus is God all a person has to do is to is to compare the Old Testament with the New Testament to find Jesus to be God . As in by comparing Isaiah 45:22,23.with Philippians 2:5-11. Like wise by comparing Psalm 89:8,9 with Matthew 8:23-27. further confirms Jesus to be God. Just be comparing the New Testament books together will also reveal that Jesus is God. As in comparing Romans 14:12 with John 5:22. further show that Jesus is God. The list can go on but this should be enough to show all those who are willing to see the truth that Jesus is God. The imams ,mullahs and the other apologists for Islam will try to explain this all away by making the claim that the Bible had been corrupt by Christian ,through time,by Christians and that’s why the Bible reads as it does. This claim, they make, very much underestimate the Power of God to preserve and protect His Word and keep in intact, through time, and keep is away from the corruption of men. In conclusion, in the light of the Bible Islam is in great and terrible error and darkness about the real Nature of Jesus. Therefore, Islam is a false religion, Proverbs 14;12. John 14:6. This is why those in power in Egypt as well as other Islamic counties don’t want Christians to give people Bibles.

Islam is a pseudo-religion vehemently set on promoting the ideology of fascism and attempt to undermine democracy. There is no place for this ideology in a modern World. We have fought World Wars against Fascism, Nazism and Communism, so it should be obvious to everyone that we need to stop this pseudo-religious fascist deathcult.

Cut off all Military and Civilian Aid to Egypt and all other Muslim Countries until they enforce: Separation Of Religion And State, Western Freedoms including Speech/Press/Assembly/Religion, Western Democracy, Equality of Sexes, Religions/ Ethnic Groups, and Human Rights! Please E-mail, Call, or Write your Congresspeople to cut all Military and Civilian Aid to Cut off all Military and Civilian Aid to Egypt and all other Muslim Countries!

There is a method of winning Muslims To Christ with the Koran. The questions remind the reader of the Koran that it actually says to get better understanding to go to the Bible. One of the questions used asks where it says that the Bible is full of errors. Please obtain a copy of the Camelmethod and check this out. Go online and ask Free copy Camelmethod. There was an evangelist who uses this method to win Muslims to Christ. We know that they believe Jesus was born of a virgin but they do not know why. Jesus had to be conceived of a virgin so that the Father’s blood would be in the child. This is scientific fact. The blood of a father is always in the Child. They don’t know why but we do.

In the Camelmethod.com, there is a part that if you search the Qur’an it actually says to consult the Bible for more information. Get a Copy of the Camelmethod of witnessing to the Muslim. So if you can find where it says that, it is possible I guess to help the Christian who was arrested. Check It Out.

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